The third South Asia Unified Cricket Tournament held this month between the
Special Olympics teams from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India highlighted
the abilities of sportspersons with and without intellectual
disabilities.

A total of four matches were played over two days. Bangladesh was
declared winner after it beat India and Sri Lanka in two successive
matches. The rules of the T20 game were such that each player got enough time
on the field. They were paired with people with and without intellectual
disabilities to play maximum of two overs.

One of the rules was that the batsmen could get out as many as six times in
an over and the total team score was the average of total runs by total
wickets.

The opening batsman for India was Pravat Bharal who dreams of taking part in
the Special Olympics in World Games.

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